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From: jdarcy@seqp4.ORG (Jeffrey d'Arcy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: NSFnet router performance (was Re: IRC Net Bandwidth)
Message-ID: <706@seqp4.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 14:28:07 GMT
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Organization: Sequoia Systems Inc., Marlboro, Mass.
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torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>At the time the NSS routers peaked out at not much
>over 300 packets per second, and certainly under 1000 packets per second.
> [...]
>There was also mention of someone `getting the packet
>forwarding cost down to about 14,000 instructions' (these being on IBM
>ROMPs)---apparently this was an improvement that was not yet in place.

Ugh!  I knew the routers were inefficient, but this level of nonperformance
defies comprehension.  Sounds like time for an upgrade; they could probably
get better performance with a Mac, and they could draw pretty pictures with
it too.